The Interim-Budget 2019-20 (IB) spells one thing out very clearly – for the BJP government, with Narendra Modi as Prime Minister, nothing matters more than Hindutva, the RSS’s version of majoritarian Hinduism. The IB proposes to spend more on protecting cows (Rs. 750 crore) through the Rashtriya Gokul Mission than on pensions for all 40 […]

We stand together to strongly condemn the baseless allegations and defamatory and concocted charges pressed against Prof. Anand Teltumbde by the Pune police, under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967 (UAPA), to wrongly frame him in the Bhima Koregaon case and to accuse him for plotting the assassination of the Prime Minister. The police forces […]

The New Trade Union Initiative condemns the arrest of 14 workers of Daikin Air-conditioning India Private Limited and the brutal and unprovoked attack on workers, by Rajasthan police, for leading the All India General Strike on 8 January 2019 in Neemrana, Rajasthan. Members of the Daikin Air Conditioner Workers’ Union along with other workers employed […]